Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 791: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 792:

  CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle.
  CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.
  BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers. Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next. Sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy
  when you've abandoned it for some time.
  Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.

  The literary devices in the dialogue above are

  Options:
  A) hyperbole and allusion
  B) irony and parody
  C) allusion and paradox
  D) humour and irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 793:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'And when He looks at the grimy coating,

  Caking off your emaciated skin,...'

  These lines from Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper' describe

  Options:
  A) the texture of the pauper's skin
  B) the coat the pauper was wearing
  C) the effect of the surroundings
  D) poverty and dirt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 794:
  From the novel; Kossoh Town Boy

  If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is

  Options:
  A) a historical novel
  B) a piece of writing telling us about the Life of its author
  C) a short story
  D) a narrative tale
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 795:

  Stars hide your fires;

  Let no light see my black and deep desires

  They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'

  In these lines Shakespare uses

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) metonymy
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) simile
  E) apostophe
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 796:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a

  Options:
  A) lamentation over a dead friend
  B) lamentation over the passing of life
  C) reflection on the passing of life
  D) reflection on nature
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 797:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  Nwaka's hostility to Ezeulu is attributable to

  Options:
  A) his great wealth and sense of importance
  B) the rivalry between Umuneora and Umuachala
  C) the instigation of Ezidemili
  D) his jealousy of Ezeulu's mysterious powers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 798:

  'Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died by coccidiosis.'

  In the passage taken from Animal Farm, the truth is that the

  Options:
  A) cause of the hens' death is unknown
  B) official explanation given is unacceptable
  C) issue is not worth considering
  D) official explanation is acceptable
  E) hens died of old-age.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 799:

  "Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"Wole Soyinka: "Night".

  Night children in the stanza above reflectsthe consciousness of__________

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 800:

  A poem of 14 lines is known as__________

  Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) octave
  C) sestet
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is A .